the iron-y of meeting one’s god, and some subtle baudelaire

the bit from the flowers of evil here

the whole film is beautifully, subtly ironic game of dystopia and post-apocalypsis. with a hint of salvation all throughout.

horseless apocalypse

the horsemen (2009). a film about a police inspector solving a series of murders thematically tied to the four horsemen of the apocalipse, only to find out that his own son is one of the said horsemen.

it is a film about this horribly crippled world, and, in a sense, about what happens when people neglect relationships. it is a film about the disease of haste and how the best intentions lead to the most spectacular failures.

it is a film about loss, and jealousy, and desperate decisions. and the thing that when there is a broken relationship, a sacrifice is necessary to set things right.

it is also a film about how important it is to do love, to do relationships, not only promises and endless tomorrows and thens.

never let me go*

caught like the butterflies
in the never-ending fire
of death,
we still aspire, still
hope, still
try mending the holes
in this incomplete
pattern of advances and retreats,
visions and divisions
called life.

—————————

* a novel by Kazuo Isiguro, now a film. you want to read it, you want to see it. you want to feel it. the never let me go.

deathly hallows, action and emptiness

what was it the great poet and critic t.s.eliot wrote in one of his poems…in an age which advances progressively backwards? watching the last (part one of the hp and deathly hallows) version of harry potter films, this is exactly how it felt.

after what happened to the ‘star trek’ and sherlock holmes, i thought that there was no room left for surprises in the crappy film department. i was wrong.

the visual story is nauseatingly boring, with very few exceptions.

fun

Agatha Christie’s Poirot S2 E7
a lady says to Hastings: Don’t you know what it’s like to love a man?
Hastings answers: as a matter of fact.. no, ma’am, i do not.

linearity and transparence

was watching the russian film ‘туман’ (mist) some days ago. the plot is simple – a unit of recruits of the modern russian army takes a shortcut through a misty swamp to appear in 1942 and face the assault of germans on russia. most of the troops are killed in fighting, and the remnant returns in the mist and their own time, to confess that they now understand what war and patriotism are all about.

three things i thought:

just a dialogue

JOHN: Jesus… you were gonna kill that guy!

TERMINATOR: Of course. I’m a terminator.

JOHN: Listen to me, very carefully, okay? You’re not a terminator any more. Alright? You got that? You can’t just go around killing people!

TERMINATOR: Why?

JOHN: Whattaya mean, why? ‘Cause you can’t!

TERMINATOR: Why?

JOHN: You just can’t, okay? Trust me on this.